Five bright orange, round UFO east of Oak Harbor, Washinton.
((NUFORC Note: Thanks to some prompt investigation by a party, who prefers to remain anonymous, we believe that this case has been explained, and solved. It appears that the lights, almost certainly, were so-called "Chinese lanterns," which had been released from a party, being held approximately one-third of a mile from the witness. We express our sincere appreciation to the individual who did the prompt follow-up investigation of the sighting report. PD))
I stepped outside about 10:30 PM pacific daylight time to see if there were any auroras, which potentially should have been in the area per spaceweather,com. I immediately I saw the first object when I stepped out my door. I called my neighbor when I first saw the object to confirm what I was seeing, but as we were on the phone, it reached a spot in the sky almost directly east of me, hesitated, blinked a couple times and faded away. (The sky was cloudy, but it did not seem like the disappearance was due to clouds.)
As we were on the phone, as I was expressing my disappointment that the neighbor missed it, another came over the horizon and did exactly the same thing, disappearing at the same spot after blinking a couple times. My neighbor did see this one, and all later objects. In all, when we were on the phone, my neighbor saw four, I saw five total, spaced about two to three minutes apart.
Each came from the north, heading south south east. Each one was round, and very bright orange. There was no flashing. They were approximately 40 degrees above the horizon to the east. Each was identical, and about four to five times brighter than a planet, if not more. When I first spotted each, it was moving very fast, but slowed down as it reached the exact same spot where each blinked and disappeared.
Each object had the same trajectory and speed before fading away. I could attribute the slowing and disappearance to turning and heading directly east, but I thought it odd that each disappeared in exactly the same way despite being seen over at least 10 minutes when the cloud cover would have changed.
I did grab my binoculars to look at each one and could see no distinguishing features, just large, round,and bright orange. Unfortunately I had loaned my neighbor's kid my camera for a photography class so I could get no images.
((FOLLOW-UP REPORT BY EXPERIENCED INVESTIGATOR, WHO WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.))
May 30, 2011
Informal Field Report
Subject: Investigation of Five Noctural Lights seen at about 2230 HRS. (Local) East of Oak Harbor, WA, on Friday, May 27, 2011. A Probable Explanation
By:
((Name deleted; female)) submitted a sighting report to NUFORC and to UFONW describing her sighting. Only additional details not already found in the NUFORC case file are included here. I interviewed her. today at 1545 L at her home, located several miles due East of the city of Oak Harbor and facing south. Refer to the attached aerial photo file
((NUFORC Note: Thanks to some prompt investigation by a party, who prefers to remain anonymous, we believe that this case has been explained, and solved. It appears that the lights, almost certainly, were so-called "Chinese lanterns," which had been released from a party, being held approximately one-third of a mile from the witness. We express our sincere appreciation to the individual who did the prompt follow-up investigation of the sighting report. PD))
I stepped outside about 10:30 PM pacific daylight time to see if there were any auroras, which potentially should have been in the area per spaceweather,com. I immediately I saw the first object when I stepped out my door. I called my neighbor when I first saw the object to confirm what I was seeing, but as we were on the phone, it reached a spot in the sky almost directly east of me, hesitated, blinked a couple times and faded away. (The sky was cloudy, but it did not seem like the disappearance was due to clouds.)
As we were on the phone, as I was expressing my disappointment that the neighbor missed it, another came over the horizon and did exactly the same thing, disappearing at the same spot after blinking a couple times. My neighbor did see this one, and all later objects. In all, when we were on the phone, my neighbor saw four, I saw five total, spaced about two to three minutes apart.
Each came from the north, heading south south east. Each one was round, and very bright orange. There was no flashing. They were approximately 40 degrees above the horizon to the east. Each was identical, and about four to five times brighter than a planet, if not more. When I first spotted each, it was moving very fast, but slowed down as it reached the exact same spot where each blinked and disappeared.
Each object had the same trajectory and speed before fading away. I could attribute the slowing and disappearance to turning and heading directly east, but I thought it odd that each disappeared in exactly the same way despite being seen over at least 10 minutes when the cloud cover would have changed.
I did grab my binoculars to look at each one and could see no distinguishing features, just large, round,and bright orange. Unfortunately I had loaned my neighbor's kid my camera for a photography class so I could get no images.
((FOLLOW-UP REPORT BY EXPERIENCED INVESTIGATOR, WHO WISHES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.))
May 30, 2011
Informal Field Report
Subject: Investigation of Five Noctural Lights seen at about 2230 HRS. (Local) East of Oak Harbor, WA, on Friday, May 27, 2011. A Probable Explanation
By:
((Name deleted; female)) submitted a sighting report to NUFORC and to UFONW describing her sighting. Only additional details not already found in the NUFORC case file are included here. I interviewed her. today at 1545 L at her home, located several miles due East of the city of Oak Harbor and facing south. Refer to the attached aerial photo file
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Oak Harbor
USA
10 minutes
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48.31
-122.63
circle
WA
Occurred : 5/27/2011 22:20 (Entered as : 05/27/2011 22:20) Reported: 5/27/2011 11:28:33 PM 23:28 Posted: 5/29/2011 Location: Oak Harbor, WA Shape: Circle Duration: 10 minutes
Five bright orange, round UFO east of Oak Harbor, WA. ((NUFORC Note: Case solved by local investigator. "Chinese" lanterns. PD))